Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Galaxian Restore
csa3d:
--- Quote from: SirPeale on July 15, 2009, 07:53:49 pm ---I got BOARD 2 to boot! I converted it to DC and it booted right up. Dirty power is a nasty thing. It has graphics glitches, but I'm sure I can sort that.
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Woohoo! I'm rooting for board 2! ;D
SirPeale:
They say that the electrolyte solution doesn't wear out. Well, my last few pieces have taken ages to do anything, so I dumped it last night. Man, it was nasty. It was probably the power supply, it died and I need to repair it. The solution needed replacing anyway.
I picked up washing soda at the grocery market a couple days ago. Cheap stuff, less than three bucks for a decent sized box. Compare that to the lye I bought, which was a tiny bottle for four bucks.
Dumped the old solution, scrubbed out the container and made new solution. One tablespoon of washing soda per gallon of water. Made sure the sacrificial piece was clean. Hooked up the electrodes to the coin door and plugged it in.
Within seconds, thousands of tiny bubbles. Within an hour the coating was all bubbled off. I'll wire wheel it later today and repaint.
SirPeale:
Coin door cleaning/painting today. Stopped trying to use my bench grinder and started using a 3" wire wheel attached to my drill.
Then lots of detail work on the corners where I couldn't get the wire wheel with steel wool.
While I was outside working, one of my neighbors noted what I was doing and told me he does sandblasting and powder coating in his basement. Three doors down from me this is going on, and I had no idea.
I told him about you guys and said I'd see if anyone would be interested in mail-order powder coating. I don't know about his rates yet, that's something to discuss.
edit: oh yeah, repainted the speaker grill today too.
SirPeale:
Any update is a good update, right?
I've had little time as any time spent with the cab also has to factor in unpacking it from the shed it's in along with the stuff around it, and repacking it back in when I'm done.
The other day I replaced the newly painted speaker grill and polished/sealed grill bolts. I'd fully planned on spending a couple hours working on it, but then it began to sprinkle. Since I knew it would take me a while to get it back in the shed it's being stored in, I started picking up immediately. Put everything away. It stopped sprinkling, and didn't actually rain until later that night. :banghead:
But at least the speaker is back in place.
SirPeale:
Filled in pits on the control panel today.
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